The Good Fight: From Bullets to Bylines - 45 Years Face-to-Face with Terror

by Jim McDowell

The year is 1969. The start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Jim McDowell, a rookie reporter, it was the beginning of a life at the heart of one of world's most notorious and bitter conflicts.
His gripping memoir reveals what it was like to live under constant fear of attack and delves into Northern Ireland's criminal underworld, including Jim's tense encounters with infamous terrorist drug dealers and killer gang godfathers like Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair and Billy 'King Rat' Wright.
McDowell's career spanned 45 years as he rose to become northern editor of Ireland's Sunday World, facing down threats, beatings and the murder of one of his reporters, Martin O'Hagan, to expose the stories that needed to be told. Always fighting the good fight.
'Those stories – even the ones that put my life in danger – had to be told. That was my job. That was what I did. It is what I do. And this, now, is my story.'
45 years. 21 death threats. Over 2,000 front pages. This is Jim's story.

346 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 15, 2017

Reviews

[Mark Campbell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed this, style's a bit quick fire which you would expect from Mr McDowell but it's interesting.

[Jack · Rating 3 out of 5]

A Newspaperman's experience of life in Belfast through the Troubles. The (unsurprisingly) journalistic style makes it an easy read.

[Matthew Dowds · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great read from start to finish. This man was not afraid to expose the truth, no matter what the consequences were. A different point of view on the troubles, highly recommended!